Member Spotlight: Heinz Klug

Get to Know Heinz Klug!

Institution(s):

• University of Wisconsin Law School (Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law)
• University of the Witwatersrand School of Law, Johannesburg, South Africa (Visiting Professor)

Number of years as LSA member: 24
Number of LSA Meetings Attended: 16
LSA Committees and governance positions:

• Class of 2022 LSA Board of Trustees
• Co-Chair, Program Committee – LSA Annual Meeting (2020; 2017; 2016)
• Program Committee – LSA Annual Meeting (2019)
• Chair – CRN Committee 
• 50th Anniversary Committee (2013-14)
• Co-Chair, International Activities Committee (2009-12)
• Faculty, Early Career Workshop – LSA Annual Meeting (2009)
• Faculty, Law and Society Summer Institute (2006)
• Faculty, Graduate Workshop – LSA Annual Meeting (2006)
• Member, Board of Trustees (2003)
• Faculty, Law and Society Summer Institute (2003)
• Member, Program Committee – Joint LSA and Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Annual Meeting (2000-01)
• Faculty, Graduate Workshop – LSA Annual Meeting (2001)
  
   

Unique Facts: 

• Served in Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed-wing of the African National Congress of South Africa and researcher for Zola Skweyiya
• Served of Chair of the Department of Legal and Constitutional Affairs for the African National Congress of South Africa

Additional Hobbies: Fencing
Major Award(S): Doctor Honoris Causa, Hasselt University 2013

Top 3 Articles or Books Published: 

Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa’s Political Reconstruction,
Cambridge University Press (2000) 

The Constitution of South Africa: A Contextual Analysis, Hart Publishing, Oxford UK,
Portland, Oregon (2010) 

Decolonisation, Compensation and Constitutionalism: Land, Wealth and the Sustainability of Constitutionalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 34(3) South African Journal on Human Rights 469-491 (2018)